Belt-support



(No Model.)

L. SANDERS.

BELT SUPPORT.

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PATENT arten LOUIS SANDERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

BELT-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,166, dated January 1"?, 1893. Application tiled August 29, 1892. SerialNo. 444,399. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, Lotus SANDERS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,have invented a n ew and Improved Belt- Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvementin belt supports, and has for its object to provide a support capable of being moved freely upon the belt and to provide each support with a jaw or a clamp capable of being engaged expeditiously and conveniently with the button of the trousers in connection with which the belt is adapted to be used; and a further object of the invention is to so construct the support that it will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic, and also to provide a body portion of a yielding material, such as leather or a fabric, whereby the body may be made to correspond with the belt in connection with which it is to be used both in. color and in design when desirable, and whereby 'also the fork or clamp attached to the body of the supporting device will be concealed when the belt is in place, and whereby further the support will not in the slightest degree injure the edges or face of the belt and will serve as an ornament to the belt to which it is applied.

Theinvention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar iigures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is a vertical section through the belt support, a belt and the upper portion of a pair of trousers, the support being shown in l connection with the belt and applied to a button of a pair of trousers; and Fig. `2 is a perspective vienr of the belt support, the belt being shown in dotted lines.

The body of the device consists of aloop A. This loop is constructed of leather, or any material from which the belt B is made and to which the device is to be applied, but preferably the loop is made of leather or of fabric.

The loop is of such length that the belt may be readily slipped through it, and upon the back of the loop a rigid plate l0, is secured, which plate is preferably constructed of metal. The plate lies flat upon the back of the loop by proj eeting ears ll from the plate andinto the loop and clamping said ears upon the loop, or other Well known forms of fastening devices may be employed, as, for instance, rivets may be used.

The plate l0 has formed upon it a fork or clamp 12. This clamp or fork is preferably made of a spring metal, the metal employed being quite light. As shownin the drawings the clamp is usually made of an essentially U or V-shape, and its members at their upper extremities are ordinarily bent outward or rearward, as shown at 13 in Fig. 2, in order that the clamps or forks may be expeditiously and conveniently passed one at each side of a button 14, attached to the waist band of a pair of trousers C; but I desire it to be distinctly understood that the clamp or fork may be attached to the plate in any suitable or approved manner. Ordinarily the clamp or fork is made integra-l with or attached to a base plate l5, and is secured to the loop plate 10 by passing rivets or other fastening devices through both the base plate of the clamp or fork and through the plate that is attached to the loop. The members of the clamp or fork are preferably made to face upward, as heretofore stated, although their position may be changed if in practice it is found desirable.

It is evident that as the loop A is constructed of a pliable material, leather orafabric, or their equivalents, the loop will not mar the belt when it is passed through it, or when the loop is slipped around the belt, as would be the case were the loop constructed of metal or a like rigid material.

The application of the device is clearly shown in Fig. 1,'in'which it will be observed that the belt passes through the loop A of the device, and the clamp or fork is made to engage with a button of the trousers7 one member of the clamp or fork passing upward at each side of AVthe shank of the button.

This device is not only simple, durable andY IOC effective for the purpose for Which it is designed, namely, that of preventing the belt from slipping from the position in which it is plaeecLbnt it is also exceedingly economie and is capable of being highly ornamented and of being made to correspond to the material of which the belt is Constructed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1o Patent,

The herein described belt support, consisting of a loop A of iexible material, the stiffening plate lO secured to the rear face of the loop, and the clamp l2, secured to the stiffening plate, said clamp consisting of a base plate and a fork Secured to and spaced from vthe base plate, as specified.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Vitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, E. M. CLARK. 

